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Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution

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Air pollution is a world problem afflicting densely populated urban centers and heavily industrialized areas. In recent years new data have changed our perception of air pollution. It is now recognized that air pollution crosses national boundaries to affect areas far distant from emission sources. In addition to its adverse health effects, air pollution also poses a danger to water, fish stocks, forests, natural vegetation, and agricultural crops. The evidence of pollutant transport across national boundaries now calls for increased international as well as national strategies for pollutant monitoring and control (46, 86).

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Spengler, J.D. (1992). Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution. In: Tarcher, A.B. (eds) Principles and Practice of Environmental Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2447-6_2

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